Intel Announces StudyBook Educational Tablet

With Apple already making headway into the education sector with its iBooks application, Intelhas announced the StudyBook - its contender for the e-learning segment. The 7" tablet has been encased within a sturdy plastic chassis, and will feature the Atom chipset. It bears a capacitive multi-touch LCD display and packs an Atom Z650 processor. The device is touted to be dust and water proof, with shock absorbing material on the corners aiding crash resistance. This may just make it the tablet school kids can be trusted with. It will also be Intel's first Android device, although Windows is also being considered as an option.

Expected to be priced under $200 (Rs 10,000), the educational tablet will not be directly marketed by Intel. The StudyBook will instead be sold worldwide by various unnamed manufacturers, who will customise it as per the region it's being marketed for. Customisations include an add-on lens that transforms the tablet's front-facing camera into a microscope, whereas vendors can also customise software and UI to incorporate regional languages.

At any rate, no matter what Datawind, Intel or Apple do, they can't possibly beat Micromax for coming up with the best tagline for an educational tablet. "Pass hoga, timepass bhi hoga" - well, shut up and take my money already, Micromax!

Reader Comments (2)

Somehow I find Intel never lives upto its words. Some time back they announced cheap, sturdy laptops for students. However, the sellers (or resellers) of those laptops were offering the machines at around 30k or more. I doubt they managed to sell many pieces. This tablet will probably meet the same fate. Intel should shut its mouth and focus only on what they best (i.e. make chips)

Submitted by Satish Kumar (not verified) on Fri, 25/05/2012 - 11:18

There is another company called 3G Store which has launched educational tablets,but currently they only have tablets for cbse board students from class 5 to class 12 & also have a tablet for iit jee preparation course,the tablets cane be found on their website:- http://www.3gstore.in/categories/Educational-Tablet-PC/cid-CU00050985.aspx